refugees
Dr Paul Bauert. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
February 14, 2019, 12:00 am
Doctor’s apology for Auschwitz comparison rebuffed
An Australian medical expert has been accused of inadequately apologising after implying refugees on Manus Island and Nauru are worse off than Holocaust victims who were sent to be gassed at Auschwitz.
By Peter Kohn
Palestinians in Gaza protest the US aid freeze to UNRWA earlier this month. Photo: AP Photo/Adel Hana
February 7, 2018, 5:02 pm
US vs UNRWA: When is a refugee not a refugee?
The recent US government decision to reduce its contribution to UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency responsible for "Palestinians refugees" has been presented as spiteful and a threat to the peace process. But is it?
Iraqi-born Alfred Gubbay, president of the Sephardi Federation of Australian Jewry, holding a Megillah scroll from Baghdad. Photo: Wendy Lessick Bookatz
December 11, 2017, 12:00 am
Spotlight on the ‘forgotten refugees’
"In NSW, we are no longer the forgotten Jews", former AUJS NSW president Hila Tsor – of Libyan and Iraqi heritage – declared at the third annual recognition ceremony of the plight of Jews from Arab lands and Iran, attended by more than 380 people on November 30 at the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.
By Shane Desiatnik
From left: Lucilla, Isobel, Nicola and Michael Ronai with Bob and Deirdre Ronai at the new panel added to the Migrant Welcome Wall in Sydney on May 7.
May 11, 2017, 12:00 am
Ronai family inscribed on Welcome Wall
Michael Ronai was the guest speaker on Sunday (May 7) when 364 names were added to the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Migrant Welcome Wall, which pays tribute to people who arrived in Australia by boat.
By Shane Desiatnik
November 23, 2015, 12:00 am
Commemorating Jewish refugees
MAURICE Cohen’s family was expelled from Cairo in 1957. “We were expelled with nothing – we left with little possessions, no money, no nothing.”
By Gareth Narunsky
Refugees walking along a motorway near the southern Hungarian village of Roszke last week. Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
September 17, 2015, 12:00 am
Support for Syrian refugees
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has endorsed the Australian government’s milestone decision to admit an additional 12,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq.
By Peter Kohn
June 17, 2015, 10:56 am
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July 9, 2014, 1:38 am
Wartime drama in French Alps
December 14, 2012, 2:45 pm
Strumming their pain: musical interlude at Villawood
DO you have an old guitar at home, sitting in the cupboard gathering dust? Volunteer music teacher Philip Feinstein would be most grateful if you’d donate it to the refugees he teaches at Villawood Detention Centre.
September 2, 2011, 3:37 pm
Sounds of joy at Villawood
VILLAWOOD Detention Centre makes news for hunger strikes and riots, but for Philip Feinstein it is just another place where human beings live.
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